Many, many thanks for your kind words, which, as you can imagine, have filled me with
joy. You will know, too, that I would never have dared place your name in such an exposed
position as it is ‒ where it is now on prominent display ‒ had I not myself been sure that I
could have taken the risk. As I look at the pieces2 now, it is ever a wonder to me that I could write them. You tell me that
you have only glanced at them a couple of times. If I might be granted one wish, it would be
that you would be willing to study them, the longer the better. The fugue is, I believe,
particularly successful: plan, construction, all of this I have been able to do only after
having studied the Well-Tempered Clavier.

Once again, your grateful acceptance of my gift is something of which I am
proud!

All good wishes from the two of us; I hope you will have a good, long rest,3 and let me know soon how you are.

Many, many thanks for your kind words, which, as you can imagine, have filled me with
joy. You will know, too, that I would never have dared place your name in such an exposed
position as it is ‒ where it is now on prominent display ‒ had I not myself been sure that I
could have taken the risk. As I look at the pieces2 now, it is ever a wonder to me that I could write them. You tell me that
you have only glanced at them a couple of times. If I might be granted one wish, it would be
that you would be willing to study them, the longer the better. The fugue is, I believe,
particularly successful: plan, construction, all of this I have been able to do only after
having studied the Well-Tempered Clavier.

Once again, your grateful acceptance of my gift is something of which I am
proud!

All good wishes from the two of us; I hope you will have a good, long rest,3 and let me know soon how you are.

2 A set of three-voice piano pieces, first mentioned in
OJ 15/16, [74], April 15,
1931, which Weisse was hoping that Schenker would accept as a gift marking his own
departure from Vienna for the United States. Schenker's diary for June 9, 1932 records:
"An Weisse (Br. expreß): danke für die Stücke; bitte durch einen Boten vier Exemplare zu
schicken." ("To Weisse (express letter): I thank him for his compositions, and ask him to
send me four copies by messenger."). Unfortunately, Schenker's letter is not known to
survive.

3 The Schenkers departed for the summer
vacation on June 14, arriving Galtür on
the 16th.

4 There is no indication in Schenker's
diary prior to his departure for Galtür as to whether he distributed the copies of
Weisse's piano pieces, or indeed that he received them.

Permission to publish granted on March 10, 2008 by the heirs of Hans Weisse. Any claim to intellectual rights on this document should be addressed to the Schenker Documents Online, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, at schenkercorrespondence[at]mus(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk